• Remnants : An Audio Drama

  • By: Eira Major
  • Podcast

Remnants : An Audio Drama

By: Eira Major
  • Summary


  • A dark fantasy thriller audio drama.


    When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place...


    Remnants is a dark fantasy thriller audio drama following the Apprentice as he learns how to read remnants under the frustrating supervision of Sir. Remnants are seemingly innocuous objects – a broken pocket watch; a steel thimble; a silk scarf – but when the Apprentice looks closely, he sees how each one holds the remnants of someone’s life story.


    Each week the Apprentice reads a new remnant, following that person’s journery beginning to end. When he’s done, he must make a judgement; shelve or discard. But he doesn’t know what the criteria is or what the consequences of such a judgement might be.


    The more remnants the Apprentice reads, the more we begin to understand the magnitude of the task he has been set. And the more both we, and the Apprentice himself, wonder why it is him who has been chosen to do it.


    With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.


    Find out more about Remnants here.


    Remnants is a part of the Rusty Quill Network.


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    Eira Major
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Episodes
  • 28. Music Box
    Feb 10 2025

    The Apprentice Does not wake where he fell asleep. Sir prevents him from making a revelation, and the Apprentice demands to know whY. Sir's explaInation is not necessarily straightforward.


    Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/1-28/

    Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A8RQ5qmq33_2dZ5I6ZgutOqzCNLBT3yEp77Gnyo4lQM/edit?tab=t.0


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    CONTENT WARNINGS:

    • Mentions of a child in extreme pain from undiagnosed illness
    • Direct discussion of antisemitism as experienced by visibly and non-visibly Jewish children in late 1920s to early 1930s Germany, including allusions to is escalation
    • Implications of homophobia
    • Allusions to depression
    • Mention of the murder of a teenager in a homophobically-motivated hate-crime (no details are given about the violence, just that it happened, and the boy involved has died)
    • Potentially insensitive characterisation of a person in a vegetative state
    • Teenage pregnancy
    • Descriptions of fear of childbirth
    • Death of complications related to childbirth - specifics are not given
    • A mother having to confront the imminent death of a child and accepting this with grief but an extreme amount of grace and compassion
    • Psuedo-sucidical ideation - a character expressing desire for non-exisitence
    • A character in emotional distress
    • Complex discussions on the nature of death and grief


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    37 mins
  • 27. Weathered Diary
    Feb 3 2025

    The Apprentice wakes in a familiar corner of the First and Last PLace. WHat he finds there undersCores his need to read one remnant in particular.


    Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/1-27/

    Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jKhtm9WjeIIj5fpNVJZbVqpNa2cmWHcn4e8wSlw3_o8/edit?usp=sharing


    Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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    CONTENT WARNINGS:

    • A child with internalised body-shaming
    • Mentions of sex workers using outdated language
    • Descriptions of injuries to a child which imply abuse
    • Depiction of grief in an active warzone
    • Implied murder


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    Follow the show on Tumblr: https://remnantspod.tumblr.com/

    Follow Eira on Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/hangingsloths.bsky.social


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    36 mins
  • 26. Battered Typewriter
    Jan 27 2025

    After restIng, the Apprentice continues to question Sir's methods, pressing him on What details he Finds importAnt.


    Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/1-26/

    Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yHjpoo1xUwKp6RiTlIRuZghCOPBsNXyAQxhMACw5YwA/edit?tab=t.0


    Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

    Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


    CONTENT WARNINGS:

    • Vague allusions to child neglect
    • War, discussions of war, descriptions of indirect experiences at war
    • Cancer and cancer treatments, specifically osteosarcoma, with mentions of side effects and symptoms
    • Heavy discussion of life after limb amputation
    • Brief description of violent limb-loss resulting from a landmine
    • Discussions of frustration with inaccessibility
    • Experiences of breathing difficulty and pain
    • Experiences with morphine during late-stage cancer treatment
    • A character in distress at their spouse’s imminent passing


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    Leave a review on ListenNotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/remnants-an-audio-drama-eira-major-qxCsBXeOtzK/


    Follow the show on Tumblr: https://remnantspod.tumblr.com/

    Follow Eira on Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/hangingsloths.bsky.social


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    32 mins

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